Resilient tire.



' P. F; WOBST.

'RESI'LIENT TIRE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 6, 1912.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

PAUL F. WOBST, 0F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

RESILIENT TIRE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed August 6, 1912.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913. SerialNo. 713,604.

T 0 all whom 2'25 may concern Be it, known that 1, PAUL F. W'onsr, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Resilient Tires; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is particularly set forth with reference accompanying drawings and pointed the claims of this specification, its

herein to the out in object bein to rovide sim ale economical. durable said casing and etlicient non-pneumatic resilient tires for the wheels of automobiles and other vehicles.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a partly sectional side elevation of a fragment of a resilient tire in accordance with my invent-ion, and of a vehicle-wl'iecl to which it is applied, and Fig. 2, a transverse sectional View indicated by line in big. 1.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 3'indicates spokes, and at a telly of a vehicle-wheel. .iolted to the telly is a clencherrim .5, for a flexible casing 6 of any suitable material. Interposcd between the rim 5 and heads of the bolts 7 are angular brackets 8 for the support of rods 9 concentric to said rim and sufiiciently clear of the same. Each bracket is a plate of sheet-metal widened at the ends and punched out to provide eyes for the engagement of the rods 9, the eyeends of the plate being outwardly bent at approximately right-angles to the remainder thereoft-hatis longitudinally of the rim to which it is fastened, and each rod is ofa length sufficient to encompass the wheel. Engaging longitudinal grooves of the rods 9 or otherwise fastened thereto are the terminals of convoluted ends of spring metal bows 10 at suitable intervals apart within tranversely of the same, the length of the brackets being preferably such that three or'more of the springs are arranged between the ends of each.

In practice the spring-bows are sufliciently stifi in proportion to a predetermined maximum load that may come thereon, and incidental to yield of the same there is a winding of their-convolute ends to auto matically take up the slack.

I claim: I

1. A. resilient tire comprising a rim, a casing therewith, brackets secured to the rim longitudinally of the same and each consisting of a-plate having widened outwardly bent ends at approximately rightangles to the remainder thereof, rim-encompassing rods extending through eyes provided in the ends of the brackets, and casing disteuding spring-bows having convolute ends fastened to the rods, the bows being transversely of said casing.

2. A resilient. tire comprising a rim, brackets secured on the rim longitudinally of the same and having outwardly extending ends. a pair of rods extending through eyes provided in said ends of the brackets, each rod being of a length sufficient to encompass said rim, spring-how's having convolute ends fastened to the rods, and acasing inclosing said brackets, rods and hows, the bows being transversely of said casing distended thereon.

A resilient tire comprising a rim, brackets secured on the rim longitudinally of the same and having outwardly extending ends, a pair of rods extending through eyes provided in said ends of the brackets, each rod being longitudinally grboved and of a length sur'licient to encompass said 'rim, spring-bows having terminals of convolute ends thereof caught in the grooves of the rods, and a casing inclosing said brackets, rods and bows, thebows being transversely of said casing distended thereon.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsin in the presence of two Witnesses.

PAUL F. 'WoBsT.

NVitnesscs 7 WM. LEHBIANN, GEORGE BEUsonEn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner, of I'atents,-

Washington, D. G. 

